No…]]> Bolts Report - Erik Erlendsson 2012-01-31T04:10:04+00:00 http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/sports/comments/oberg-among-four-lightning-players-heading-back-to-norfolk/ With Tampa Bay off for a week and Norfolk playing a pair of weekend games, the Lightning sent Evan Oberg, Trevor Smith, Mike Angelidis and Pierre-Cedric Labrie back to the AHL. During their call up the three forwards combined for one goal and three assists, not a bad contribution from…]]> Bolts Report - Erik Erlendsson 2012-01-25T17:21:04+00:00 http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/sports/comments/marty-st.-louis-returns-to-tampa-bay-lightning-practice-on-tuesday/ SAN JOSE, Calif. – Less than two weeks after being struck near his left eye with a puck, Lightning right wing Marty St. Louis has returned to practice with the team.

St. Louis traveled with the team to San Jose Tuesday morning and joined his teammates on the…]]> Bolts Report - Erik Erlendsson 2011-12-20T23:37:01+00:00 http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/sports/comments/anisimov-apologizes-to-the-lightning-tampa-bay-accepts/ After creating controversy with a goal celebration against the Lightning on Thursday, New York Rangers forward Artem Anisimov issued an apology to Tampa Bay on Friday.

Anisimov sparked a bit of a melee following his shorthanded goal in the second period, turning toward the Lightning goal after scoring and feigning…]]> Bolts Report - Erik Erlendsson 2011-12-09T22:42:58+00:00 http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/sports/comments/lightnings-marty-st.-louis-struck-near-the-eye-with-puck/ NEW YORK - Tampa Bay Lightning forward Marty St. Louis is expected to miss tonight’s game against the New York Rangers after taking a puck to his left eye Thursday morning.

St. Louis was to appear in his 500th consecutive regular season game. He has not missed a game, regular…]]> Bolts Report - Erik Erlendsson 2011-12-08T18:06:31+00:00 http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/sports/comments/nhl-realigns-tampa-bay-lightning-to-be-in-a-new-division-next-season/ From the league earlier tonight:

The NHL’s Board of Governors on Monday approved a radical realignment plan, eliminating the current two-conference, six-division setup in favor of a configuration that features four conferences based primarily on geography. Two conferences will have eight teams and the other two conferences will have seven…]]> Bolts Report - Erik Erlendsson 2011-12-06T02:54:53+00:00 http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/sports/comments/steve-yzerman-questions-motives-behind-versus-criticism-of-1-3-1/ The meeting of the league’s 30 general managers earlier this week figured to center around Philadelphia’s tactics last week against Tampa Bay’s neutral zone trap when the Flyers sat on the puck in their own zone refusing to move it forward unless Lightning players came up to forecheck.

The move…]]> Bolts Report - Erik Erlendsson 2011-11-17T19:18:17+00:00 http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/sports/comments/lightnings-ryan-malone-to-play-vs.-hurricanes/ RALEIGH - The Lightning may have caught a break as LW Ryan Malone didn’t suffer any kind of a break. Or strain. Or tear.

After missing practice to undergo both an X-ray and MRI on Monday, Malone was given the green light and will be in the lineup when Tampa…]]> Bolts Report - Erik Erlendsson 2011-11-01T19:29:34+00:00 http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/sports/comments/video-tampa-bay-lightning-head-coach-guy-boucher-after-1-0-victory-against-/ Watch some of Guy Boucher’s thoughts following Saturday’s 1-0 victory against the Winnipeg Jets